Went to a jobsite in Austin yesterday and saw a brick wall that made me cringe

Some crew laid a whole facade with the frogs facing out. Eight courses of brick and every single one had the indentation showing. How do you miss that for an entire shift without anyone saying something?

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butler.abby2d ago

Put yourself in the homeowner's shoes for a second. They paid for that brick job and now they've got a wall that looks like it has a thousand little belly buttons staring back at them. Nobody's gonna notice until they get up close, but once you see it, you can't unsee it. That crew probably walked away feeling real proud, and now someone's gotta either live with it or pay to tear it down and start over. Honestly, it's the kind of mistake that makes you wonder if anyone on that site even knew what a frog was before they started.

eva_thompson101d ago

My grandpa built a chimney once and realized halfway up he'd been stacking the bricks upside down, just kept going because he said "nobody looks at chimneys anyway." You can't unsee those frogs once you spot em, they stare at you like a hundred little disappointed faces.